Employer Education Workshops

The Career & Internship Center, Career Center @ Engineering and Foster Undergraduate and Specialty Masters Career Center are pleased to offer Employer Education Webinars to support you in being as successful as possible in your development of campus recruiting programs, and your recruitment efforts on campus.

Read on for Fall 2020 webinar dates and offerings, including 4 brand-new sessions!

How to Be an Awesome Intern Manager

Employers who are thoughtful when designing internship programs and intentional in implementing them reap benefits in terms of intern engagement, productivity, and loyalty. Join us to learn about key elements of a high impact internship, reasons why each is important, and tangible ideas for building each into your internship program.  The session will feature interns and managers sharing tips on how to create internships that make students feel valued, motivated, and committed to the organization.

5 Tips to Host a Great Virtual Internship (new webinar this Fall!)

COVID-19 launched us into a world of virtual internships – join us to learn about 5 key tips for creating virtual internships that work for you AND for your interns!  These foundational tips will help you jumpstart your virtual internship planning and more confidently run your intern programs while maintaining your candidate pipeline.

Equitable Hiring Best Practices (new webinar this Fall!)

What does equitable hiring mean? Why is it essential, not optional?  Join team members from the Career & Internship Center and University of Washington’s HR Diversity Recruitment team to learn about how to start or refine your equitable and inclusive hiring practices, what candidates are expecting to see, and how we can support you in these efforts.

How to Start an Internship Program

Interested in starting an internship program but a little unsure about what all is involved?  Thoughtful planning will help you create internships that are truly a win-win.  In this webinar, we’ll explore internship basics, identify key elements of a successful internship program, and discuss the nuts and bolts of intern hiring.

  • Wednesday, November 18th from 10:00-11:00am PDT. Register here.
  • View a recorded version of this webinar from July 2019 by clicking here.

How to Write a Great Internship Description for the UW – According to the Data (new webinar this Fall!)

Wondering how to write an internship description that will stand out? We’ve looked at application trends and data in our Handshake system to generate tips and recommendations that will help you write an internship description more likely to create interest and applications from UW students. You’ll walk away with tangible resources, action items, food for thought, and insights into UW candidate behaviors.

Recruiting 101 – Getting Started with UW Recruiting!

This session will introduce you to virtual recruiting options on campus, and how the campus Career Centers are eager to support your recruiting and visibility needs.

Building Your Virtual Brand (new webinar this Fall!)

This Fall at the University of Washington will look a little different – all recruiting activities will be virtual!  This session will introduce you to virtual recruiting options on campus, best practices on connecting with candidates virtually, and how the campus Career Centers are eager to support your recruiting and visibility needs.

Questions? Email Emma O’Neill-Myers at econeill@uw.edu

Archived webinars (academic year 2019-2020 or earlier)

Millennials have Graduated – Meet Gen Z!

  • View a recorded version of this webinar from September 2019 by clicking here.

Special one-time webinar: Recruiting 101 – at an all-virtual UW (Spring 2020)! – free online webinar


Questions? Email Emma O’Neill-Myers at econeill@uw.edu